May 25, 2021 RELEASE 21-069*New NASA Student Challenge Offers Hands-On Tech Development*  NASA TechRise Student Challenge logo */Credits: NASA/* Lee esta historia en español aquí. NASA will initiate a new competition for the 2021-22 school year, providing student teams a chance to design, build, and launch experiments on suborbital rockets and high-altitude balloon flights. NASA and Future Engineers, the challenge administrator, will offer a series of virtual events for educators to hear ...Continue Reading

Space Weather Message Code: ALTEF3 Serial Number: 3141 Issue Time: 2021 May 25 1243 UTC CONTINUED ALERT: Electron 2MeV Integral Flux exceeded 1000pfu Continuation of Serial Number: 3140 Begin Time: 2021 May 24 1805 UTC Yesterday Maximum 2MeV Flux: 1263 pfu NOAA Space Weather Scale descriptions can be found at www.swpc.noaa.gov/noaa-scales-explanation Potential Impacts: Satellite systems may experience significant charging resulting in increased risk to satellite systems.Thank you for using the Product Sub ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2021 May 25 0030 UTC # Prepared jointly by the U.S. Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, # Space Weather Prediction Center and the U.S. Air Force. # Joint USAF/NOAA Solar Region Summary SRS Number 145 Issued at 0030Z on 25 May 2021 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 24 May I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 24/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2824 N19W13 194 0180 Csi 06 08 Beta-Gamma 2825 N17E39 142 0010 Axx 01 01 Alpha IA. H-a ...Continue Reading

May 24, 2021 RELEASE 21-070*New NASA Earth Systems Observatory to Help Address, Mitigate Climate Change* maria_goe_2017263_lrg.jpeg NASA’s new Earth Systems Observatory will guide efforts related to climate change, disaster mitigation, fighting forest fires, and improving real-time agricultural processes – including helping to better understand Category 4 to 5 hurricanes such as Hurricane Maria, shown here in a 2017 thermal image captured by NASA’s Terra satellite. */Credits: NASA/* NASA will design a new ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 7 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FIRES (1 updated event, 1 new image) -- 2021 FIRE SEASON IN THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE Whether sparked by lightning, intentional land-clearing, or human-caused accidents, wildfires are burning longer and more often in some northern latitudes as the world warms. * Smoke Replaces Ice at Lake Winnipeg (Image from May 18, 2021; Posted May 21, 2021) https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/i ...Continue Reading

The following sections have been updated in the past 3 days. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- WATER COLOR (1 updated event, 1 new image) -- 2021 NORTHERN HEMISPHERE OCEAN BLOOMS Increased sunlight, nutrient runoff, and wind-driven upwelling can create ideal conditions for massive blooms of floating plant-like phytoplankton. * Lake Erie Astir (Image from May 18, 2021; Posted May 21, 2021) https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/148350/lake-erie-astir/?src=nha --------- ...Continue Reading

Space Weather Message Code: ALTEF3 Serial Number: 3140 Issue Time: 2021 May 24 1812 UTC ALERT: Electron 2MeV Integral Flux exceeded 1000pfu Threshold Reached: 2021 May 24 1805 UTC Station: GOES 16 NOAA Space Weather Scale descriptions can be found at www.swpc.noaa.gov/noaa-scales-explanation Potential Impacts: Satellite systems may experience significant charging resulting in increased risk to satellite systems.Thank you for using the Product Subscription Service. If you would like to remove a product subscr ...Continue Reading

Monday, May 24, 2021 This is to inform users of the JPL SMAP Sea Surface Salinity (SSS) CAP V5.0 datasets that select L2B and L3 8day running mean and monthly files on the specific dates cited below needed to be reprocessed.  This is due to an error of Antenna Scan Angle (ASA), that required the SMAP project to replace TB files containing the affected orbits. The ASA errors occurred in select Level-1 half-orbits and propagated into the associated higher-level products. ASA errors affected data files between 5 Octo ...Continue Reading

Official Space Weather Advisory issued by NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center Boulder, Colorado, USA SPACE WEATHER ADVISORY OUTLOOK #21-23 2021 May 23 at 9:36 p.m. MDT (2021 May 24 0336 UTC) **** SPACE WEATHER OUTLOOK **** Summary For May 17-23 R1 (Minor) radio blackouts occurred on 22-23 May due to flare activity from Region 2824. G1 (Minor) geomagnetic storm levels occurred on 20 May due to coronal hole high speed stream activity. Outlook For May 24-30 There is a chance for further R1 (Minor) r ...Continue Reading

:Product: Solar Region Summary :Issued: 2021 May 24 0030 UTC # Prepared jointly by the U.S. Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, # Space Weather Prediction Center and the U.S. Air Force. # Joint USAF/NOAA Solar Region Summary SRS Number 144 Issued at 0030Z on 24 May 2021 Report compiled from data received at SWO on 23 May I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 23/2400Z Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type 2824 N19W00 194 0190 Csi 05 09 Beta-Gamma 2825 N16E53 141 0010 Axx 01 01 Alpha IA. H-a ...Continue Reading